The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-04-22
VIEWS AND OTHER SOTINGS.


counts. His bondsmen will have to max
the shortage good.
james Riners, known 10 the theatr ical
profession as James Reynolds, shot his
wife and then shot himself at Philadelphia
on Tuesday afternoon. The wife's injuries
are only slight, but Rners is not expected
to live.
In runaway accident on last Tuesday
Major James F. Ryan, of McKeesport, was
thrown from a wagon and instantly killed
Major Ryan was brother of Arch5 tsho,
Ryan, Of Philadelphia, and one OF the
weaithIest citizens of McKeesport.
1t is not enough that the sugar refneries
In the United States hav9 a total ref ming
capacity of about 1000 600 barrels per
month, but we must have imitation sugar.
1t costs about IL cents a POUND to manuiac-
ture "sugarine" by the secret formula which
is 10 use.
The barn of John Henry, in Summit
township, Crawford county. was struck by
lightning one evening last week. Three
horses, two cows, and two calves, together
with all the hay, gram, etc, stored on the
premises wero consumed. Loss, Isl 900 ; no
Insurance.
The house of a man named Brewles, in
Smith county, Va, was destroyed by fire on
Monday night, in which two of his daugh-
ters, aged 10 and d years, were burned to
death and three other persons so severely
injured that they cannot survive. The fire
was caused by defective lue.
Joseph Burch, weI-to-dU farmer, liv-
ing six miles west of Lima, Ohio, on We'd
nesday last, killed his sick wife with
hammer. and then went to the woods near
by, twisted some bark INTO a moose, and
hanged himself. Burch was temperate but
weak minded, and the pain had had frequent
quarrels.
Assistant Paymaster Joseph Frick, Of
the United States steamer Michigan, was
mortally wounded on Monday near Erie
Pa, while out cunning. He used the butt
of his gun TO start a balky horse. In the
operation the horse kicked, d1scharging the
weapon, shooting Frick's arm of He lies
dying in St Vincent's hospital
Mrs. B. S. Smoot. aged II, bride Of
eight weeks committed suicide by taking a
dose of trough on rats at Topeka, Kansas
on Saturday. Her husband is an engineer
on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
railroad. She had in her pocket at tie time
of her death the photograph ofa young man
20 whom she was at one time engaged.
AT Menasha. Wisconsin, all the girls in
the carding department of the Menasha
wooden mills went on a strike Friday after
noon. The projectors OF the mill ordered
sll the windows facing the street painted
recently, so that the girls empl Dyed would
attend strictly to business and not be tempt
ed to watch passers-by. The girls refuse to
return unless the paint is removed.
The town of Washington was shaken on
Saturday as if by small earthquake At
ter shooting oil wells with nitro glvcerine,
the cans that had contained the explosives
were gathered together and placed around
the carcass of an old COW and exploded.
The noise was deafening and many homes
in Washington were shaken. Not six hairs
were afterward found of the cow
Near Dolores Argentine Republic.
there was recently a shower of stones A
few moments after the plains were covered
with the bodies of geese. stOrks, and other
birds and ANIMALS killed by the stones One
/ inbabitant of the place carried As head Of
/ geese home in the space of half an hour
/ Great loss was sustained. Maby animals
were killed aud crops and trees destroyed
Daring a terrific storm at PikeviHe Sec
ton, \. g. on Tuesday, the house of Tay-
lor Eastman, prominent farmer, was struck
by lighting. Mrs. Eastman was sitting near
the window and Eastman and his son at
another window. while a daughter had
seat in front Of the fireplace Eastman and
his son were killed outright and Mrs East
man and her daughter we're rendered uncon-
scious
John Lennocks, night watchman at
Edward McCauley & Co 5 coal yard, PhiIa-
delphia, was seized in the Office by four
men about 1 O'Clock on Saturday night,
bound and gagged and tied to a chair with
ropes. The men then broke open the mon
ey-drawer, took the conten IS s1O3 in cash,
and departed Lennocks liberated himself
by freeing one hand and cutting the ropes
which bound him to the chair.
On last Friday afternoon George Wer-
ner, teacher in suDurban village school
IN the town OF Williamsburg, Wisconsin,
punished refractory pupil named Henry
Zugbusch by applying a ruler sharply to
his wrists, and the latter fell back uncOn-
scious in his seat. Supposing that the boy
had tainted, he threw two pals of water
over him but the pupil was dead. The
teacher fl ed and has not been seen since.
/ The farmers Of the community are looking
for him AID threaten to lynch him, as the
boys father claims that Werner chOked
him to death.
On Sunday morning one of the strangest
/ accidents occurred at New York that has
ever been witnessed by railroad men.
Thomas Quinn, while walking along the
track, was struck by a freight train ana bis
body was thrown upon the pilot of she en-
gine, where it lay until Larchmcnt was
reached. There it fell to the rOadbed and
both feet were cut of. Another train on
the pposite track struck the body and it
was hurled upon the pilot and lay there
until New Rochelle was again reached,
when it rolled of and the trunk fell under
the wheels a second time. When the train
moved off it was seen that only the headess
trunk remained after the terrible buffeting
1t had received.